As for the food: sukumawiki (minced spinach-like or collard greens), ugali (white cornmeal fufu) and nyama choma (roasted meat) seem to be the national dishes. Reynald's restaurant and cabaret was a frequent gathering place downtown Nairobi, where you see Komba Bellow here attacking a plate of fried fish. This is a country of meat-eaters but nyama choma, I'm sorry, was not to my taste: so tough I could not get a tooth into it, and not seasoned at all. The pili pili and exuberant flavorings of West African cooking are disappointingly not in evidence here. Some days I gratefully took my meals in a Chinese restaurant.
